Christiane Pooley

Born in 1983 in Temuco, Chile
Lives and works between Santiago de Chile and Paris, France

I’m interested in how we construct belief in response to notions that we can´t fully seize, such as our relation to time, space or the infinite. Through observation, classification and transformation, I attempt to find ways to explore this idea.

My work arises as an on-going documentation of the self; which is organized through different projects. How do I see, how does my memory work, how do I reconstruct my own story? I like to reflect upon the ways in which this documentation takes place, and integrate its subjective structure into my images.

For me, the paintings offer a laboratory where echo and doubt are possible.

Painting emerges not only as a medium, but also as a substitute and a lie. I believe that through this lie I will be able, if never to seize reality, to discern those things that are structuring my approach to it.